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Full Spectrum Operations in the Homeland: A “Vision” of the Future (CW2 Ping)
Western Rifle Shooters ^ | July 25, 2012 | COL Kevin Benson, USA (ret)

Posted on 08/05/2012 7:30:25 AM PDT by Travis McGee

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To: bayouranger

Well, color me surprised. It’s still there.

<*screenshot*>

In a real mainstream media outlet, such a slap-in-the-face reminder of reality would likely result in that comment being deleted or comments being suspended altogether.


61 posted on 08/05/2012 3:07:37 PM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: Travis McGee
The comments are very worthwhile reading at the site.

Personally, I do not trust our very highest military. They **know** that Obama has posted forged birth documents. They KNOW that he has used multiple social security numbers and that his current SS# is from a man born in the 1890s. These perfumed princes **know** that Obama fails e-verify.

Shame on them! Where is there commitment to their oath to defend the Constitution? Where is the evidence that they have peacefully and **legally** asked congress or the courts for clarification of Obama’s eligibility? Is this how they watch the backs of the brave and honorable men and women serving under insane rules of engagement in Afghanistan and Iraq?

Wow! And now this? Am I disappointed? You bet.

62 posted on 08/05/2012 4:16:01 PM PDT by wintertime (:-))
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To: TLI

Great and interesting points I had not considered. Thanks. I have to include that tactic on my list. I guess it’s a version of “build a strawman, attack it in the controlled press, destroy enemies and create distractions from the failing economy and slow-motion communist putsch.”


63 posted on 08/05/2012 5:30:20 PM PDT by Travis McGee (www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: TLI; aragorn; Steel Wolf; CodeToad; FreedomPoster
I believe that they believe that they can kick open the patriotic hornet's nest just enough to unleash a few stings, just enough to give them a pretext to institute some kind of emergency rule.

(Even the undeclared kind, where federal agents are suddenly and quietly told to "pick people up"...and they do.)

They are very stupid and arrogant to believe they can calibrate, control and crush the outflow of angry hornets from the nest they are nudging. They greatly underestimate the numbers, motivation, and stinging power of the hornets.

They greatly overestimate their power to turn the USA into the USSA, and the FBI into the KGB. Even if they are quite a ways along that continuum, (see Fast and Furious etc), they are probably dangerously overreaching.

Even Hitler was smart enough not to invade Switzerland, the land of "One German, one shot." Our would-be commissars are truly clueless about our latent capabilities, and theirs.

64 posted on 08/05/2012 5:44:10 PM PDT by Travis McGee (www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: stevie_d_64; archy; Squantos; wardaddy
Draw a line intersecting the immediate MSM Gabby Giffords reaction, Colorado/ABC/Brian Ross, and now this serious and semi-official calculated provocation by a well-known scholar-officer in a respected establishment war journal ... carefully reviewed and passed along before being released.

What ever happened to wargaming scenarios against Orangeland and Pineland, designed to cause no political blowback from any quarter? Clearly, this is a calculated insult and poke in the eye to name the Evil White Racist / Tea Party Militia as the National Villains. This is just a stunning change to name and call out an ethnic and regional group as National Villain. This is dangerous territory.

I can only conclude that the liberal elite powers-that-be have an epic hard-on for "white racist Tea Party militia terrorists."

We cannot ignore this trend. We have had our warning. The leaders of the libtard elite establishment are chomping at the bit to unleash hell on their mortal enemies, the Bitter Clinger Nation. They are just PRAYING for the next assault rifle massacre or bombing to at the hands of a bitter clinging tea partier.

And if it doesn't happen naturally, they might give it some "help." See Fast & Furious, where the Obama regime already crossed the deliberate mass-murder-for-political-gain Rubicon.

65 posted on 08/05/2012 6:01:42 PM PDT by Travis McGee (www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: Alas Babylon!; bayouranger; wintertime

See 64 and 65, please.


66 posted on 08/05/2012 6:05:00 PM PDT by Travis McGee (www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: Travis McGee

Well there is the latest ploy today... They’re calling the Sikh Temple shooting a “Domestic Terrorist” incident. The dead suspect is a large WHITE man. Since the dead tell no tales, will he be named Bubba Wayne Teapartiar?


67 posted on 08/05/2012 6:59:52 PM PDT by Alas Babylon!
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To: Alas Babylon!

He will be called Bubba Wayne Teapartier, unless he has orange hair and is dressed like Batman.


68 posted on 08/05/2012 7:05:28 PM PDT by Travis McGee (www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: Travis McGee

I am posting your #65, excerpted, to my Facebook account, in your name. It is the most poignant comment on this thread yet, and it has been a veritable gold mine of veracity.


69 posted on 08/05/2012 8:06:58 PM PDT by backwoods-engineer (I will vote against ANY presidential candidate who had non-citizen parents.)
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To: Travis McGee; All

You are right...We have had our warning(s)...

And as we have seen today, we are one more mass shooting away/closer to having a problem...

Having played the games against Red/Orange, and only having a lackluster support from Green to help us (Blue), I learned one thing from that period in my life...You can only trust those in Blue, those completely on our side at the end of the day...

The Colonel setup this discussion, and it has been in my opinion very productive, Steel Wolf brought up some excellent points and observations...I will be studying these two trains of thought, and try to answer some of my own concerns...

Bottom line...I feel there are a lot more things working aginst us, then working for us...We need to figure out the lines and strengthen our positions on the legal, political and social impact of our decisions on the future...Tactics will obviously be governed by regional/local factors...We will obviously have to be very flexible in that regard as well...

Just my opinion...


70 posted on 08/05/2012 8:17:06 PM PDT by stevie_d_64 (It's not the color of one's skin that offends people...it's how thin it is.)
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To: Travis McGee

For later.


71 posted on 08/05/2012 8:17:42 PM PDT by Lurker (Violence is rarely the answer. But when it is it is the only answer.)
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To: backwoods-engineer

Thanks. I’m honored.


72 posted on 08/05/2012 8:41:10 PM PDT by Travis McGee (www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: stevie_d_64

At the boundaries of all of those colors there will be lots of black ops and false flags. Nothing will be as it seems.

Truth itself will be part of the information/propaganda meme-warfare battlefield.

I think deliberately seeding the public mind with the “Evil White Racist Tea Party Militia” as national villain is despicable, getting near to Nazi anti-Jewish propaganda in the 1930s.

“The Bible Thumping Bitter Clingers and Racist Haters must be crushed!” is the meme they are trying to sell. We are being set up to be national scapegoat.

This from an administration that could not find a link to global islamist jihad in an Army major shouting “Allahu Akbar!” as he emptied his magazines into infidel soldiers.

But those Southern racist rednecks? We just gotta put them down in their place. No room for that sort in the new multi-kulti anti-racist white-Chrisitan hating USSA.


73 posted on 08/05/2012 8:47:51 PM PDT by Travis McGee (www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: Travis McGee

I posted this off Ann’s link at oh dark thirty last night but it got pulled. Just curious why.


74 posted on 08/05/2012 10:00:46 PM PDT by ebshumidors ( Marksmanship and YOUR heritage http://www.appleseedinfo.org)
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To: Travis McGee
Just got done reading the essay and all the comments...

Just damn.

75 posted on 08/05/2012 10:02:16 PM PDT by SC Swamp Fox (Aim small, miss small.)
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To: Travis McGee

This is not exactly a “Bolt out of the blue”.

Recall about three years ago the Missouri Information Analysis Center put out a report suggesting Tea Party members were terrorists.

http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/miac/index?tab=articles


76 posted on 08/06/2012 6:14:36 AM PDT by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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To: Travis McGee

““The Bible Thumping Bitter Clingers and Racist Haters must be crushed!” is the meme they are trying to sell.”

That may be one of the excuses, but the real objective is the preservation of “Big Government” at all costs.

Government, government beneficiaries, and all those in that sphere cannot justify their continued existence through rational argument.

They must get the increasing revenue that such bureaucracy demands - this is indirect intimidation “you might be a terrorist” to be followed by more direct intimidation “we seize assets of terror group members”.

Anyone who gets a government benefit check of any kind is already predisposed to help gather information.

Changing the historical demographic of the military is essential to making CONUS operations against US citizens possible (despite constitutional prohibitions). That shift has already begun.


77 posted on 08/06/2012 6:45:33 AM PDT by RFEngineer
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To: Travis McGee

Perhaps he wrote some story words for his employer so he can get paid. Thats what he does, apparently.


78 posted on 08/06/2012 7:07:46 AM PDT by ecomcon
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To: Travis McGee

“white racist tea party militias”

We’re done for if they find a Chick-fil-a wrapper on the scene...

Dunn.

Over.


79 posted on 08/06/2012 8:28:37 AM PDT by bayouranger (The 1st victim of islam is the person who practices the lie.)
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To: Travis McGee
Thank you to all who took the time to read and comment on our essay. We were hoping to start a conversation and it seems we succeeded. We trust that this effort is in keeping with the spirit of this journal: to push the boundaries of knowledge through discourse.

Several readers objected to our using the Tea Party in our fictional scenario. We see your point. Understand, though, that you could insert any number of organizations into our scenario in lieu of the Tea Party. The scenario and the response thereto, rather than the specific actors, are the focus of our piece.

Our objective was to highlight what we believe is an understudied area of potential operations. Given that US Army doctrine sees full-spectrum operations as a mix of offense, defense, and either stability [overseas] or support [in the continental US and territories] operations, how our Army conducts full spectrum operations at home is an important topic. In recent times we've all seen the Army and Marines committed to Los Angeles, Miami, and New Orleans all under various conditions of defense support to civil authority. There were some lessons-learned articles and studies written after those operations, but after more than ten years of war none remain in the current curricula of our staff and war colleges. Through discussion on this site, facilitated by Small Wars Journal, we hope this subject will be studied.

Thanks again to all who took time to read and comment.

Kevin Benson and Jennifer Weber

From the comments section of the article.

TS

80 posted on 08/06/2012 1:12:36 PM PDT by The Shrew (www.wintersoldier.com; www.tstrs.com; The Truth Shall Set You Free!)
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